Mystery of Sam McKee Nears Montana Return After 40 Years
Radio flash reports Sam McKee, a 65 year old Montana man who vanished in 1898 near Winston, is heading south from Alaska with six sled dogs. His two sons Buck and Bill, raised separately after his disappearance, hope the Klondike veteran is their father returning to spend his last years near Helena.
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Sam McKee
Montana
Arctic Circle
Buck
Bill
Winston
St. Joseph's Orphanage
Helena Valley
Denver
Colorado
Helena
Great Falls
Alaska
Robert Service
Sam McGee
Klondike
Honolulu
McKee
Far North
Winston Distict
Appeal to Santa at State University Convocation
President George Finlay Simmons urged Santa Claus for a state university relief package. He asked the legislature to restore faculty cuts and maintenance funding, increase faculty levels, and repair old campus buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Finlay Simmons
State University
Santa Claus
Santa
County Officers Terms in Doubt
Secretary of State Sam Mitchell says Montana voters approved a constitutional amendment on county officers terms but its immediate effect must await a Montana Supreme Court test case. The outcome will decide whether 1940 or 1944 elections determine four-year terms for county officials, with only the district court clerk currently serving a different term.
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Montana Supreme Court
Sam W. Mitchell
Montana
Roy E. Ayers
Mitchell
Supreme Court
Secretary of State
State Supreme Court
Helena
Man Adopted Into Blackfeet Tribe While Studying Plains Indians
Donald Collier, son of Indian Affairs commissioner John Collier, left the Blackfeet reservation after two months of field work for his anthropology thesis. He traveled to the Rocky Boy reservation to continue research and was adopted by Mountain Chief, oldest of the full-bloods, becoming his son.
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Donald Collier
John Collier
Indian Affairs
Blackfeet Reservation
Rocky Boy Reservation
Donald
Mountain Chief
Pioneer of 1868 is in Soth Year Reared On Kansas Frontier
John Bird celebrated his 80th birthday at Browning with his son and daughter in law. Born in 1848 in Ohio, he crossed to Kansas then moved to Montana by way of Missouri River. He became one of Montana's early cattle ranchers, living at Browning and along Cut Bank Creek before settling at the Bird ranch.
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Kansas
Missouri River
Montana
State
John Bird
Sam Bird
Browning
Bird
Lincoln County
Ohio
Missouri
Last Chance
Bozeman
Custer
Crow Agency
Fort Benton
Sunriver
Hay Stackbutte
Blackfeet
CCCID
Captain Cook
Cut Bank Creek
Lower Cut Bank Creek
Bird Ranch
Fort Abraham Lincoln
Little Big Horn
O'Fallon Creek
Powder River Valley
Rosebud
Plains chiefs fill memory with war trails and sacred rites
The text recounts Mountain Chief naming a son Big Brave and gifting a beaded war shirt, listing allied Blackfeet leaders and the interpreter Dick Sanderville. It notes Schultz and Magpie Kipp Croft visiting Bear River and the former Fort Conrad site, now river island, as they traced late 19th century plains diplomacy and camp life.
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Mountain Chief
Big Brave
Donald
No Coat
Lazy Boy
Green Grass Bull
Wolf Plume
Bear Chief
Dick Sanderville
Collier
Bear River
The
Marias
James
Willard Schultz
Schultz
Magpie Kipp Croft
Joseph Kipp
Marias River
Conrad
Great Northern Railway
Maggie
James Willard Schultz
Raven
Quiver
Indian Women Adopt Industry in Revival of Bead Work
The Blackfeet Tribe advances a self run craft economy with 10 clubs and 350 members led by WPA instructors. They produce buckskin beadwork from local hides and imported beads, sell via mail orders and two shops, and plan an exposition display. The effort has earned over $11,000 since January with $400 in November mail orders.
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James Willard Schultz
Browning
United States Indian Service
Schultz
WPA
Craft Council
Czechoslovakia
Italy
Nora Spanish
Treasure
the Co-Operative
Martin Peppion
Shirley Temple
Aerial Hunter Slays Coyotes Over Fort Benton Route
Ed Canfield a Williston North Carolina pilot who hunts coyotes from an airplane repeatedly dived on moving targets near Fort Benton during a slow headwind flight to Great Falls. He bagged nine coyotes and arranged a fur buying route with Beckman Bros for pelts from Williston early buyers.
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Ed Canfield
Williston
N. C
Canfield
Great Falls
Fort Benton
Beckman Bros
al Beckman
Custer Campaign Theme of Book
Notice highlights a book about the Custer campaign with emphasis on southeastern Montana. The work was published early last October and discusses notable aspects of the period and region.
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Custer
Montana
Hawley
Ofs Perio
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Clark’s Fork Valley
Anaconda Copper Mining Co. Lands Department
Missoula, Mont
Secretary of
Sam Mitchell
Harry E
Wilken
Ere
Mayuri Vidya
Siam
San Francisco
U. S
trans-Pacific Airmail
MES
Blackfeet Tribe
Youn Rand
Seventh Cavalry
Young Rand
John Rand
Ma Chee
Crab Orchard
Kentucky
Old
Windsor
National Distillers Products Corporation
New. York
N.Y
G. F. Johnson Blabon
N. Dak
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